• Bold color for young eyes: the De Stijl, CoBrA and Pop Art rooms hold kids' attention better than quiet older paintings
• Three big museums on one square: the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum are a short walk across Museumplein, so plan one per day with kids
• Playground close by: there's one next to the Rijksmuseum, about a 5-minute walk, for a run-around after the galleries

The Stedelijk is the city's museum of modern and contemporary art and design, with close to 90,000 objects from the early 1900s to now. Kids can spot Mondrian's primary-color grids, Karel Appel's wild CoBrA paintings, Warhol's Pop Art and Matisse, alongside design objects.

The entrance sits in the white wing locals call "the Bathtub", across Museumplein from the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum.